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FINANCIAL

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 7, 2017
A greener shade of digital finance
If financial technology is to reach its potential to advance the global public good, another factor must be accounted for: the environment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 26, 2017
Line declines after quarterly profit, sales miss estimates
Line Corp. posted its biggest drop yet as analysts cut ratings after fourth-quarter profit and revenue that missed estimates.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2016
Trumping the international monetary system
Market optimism about U.S. growth could lead to ever-larger imbalances and possibly disrupt the international monetary system.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2016
Koike announces plan to re-crown Tokyo as Asia's financial hub
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Friday announced her plan to revitalize the nation's capital and reaffirm it as a top financial center, a move aimed at boosting the country's economic growth in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ¥600 trillion GDP target for 2020, the year of the Olympic Games.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2016
Are we heading toward Financial Crisis 2.0?
Developments in the world economy threaten to create problems for the next U.S. president and, possibly, trigger a major financial crisis.
EDITORIALS
Sep 8, 2016
Encouraging banks to lend more
A new FSA policy is aimed at encouraging regional banks to fund promising business projects and turn struggling local economies around.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2016
Can the private sector save the U.S. economy?
Why is the U.S. economy taking so long to recover from the Great Recession?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2016
Being an ideologue means you're always right
Despite the protests of committed free-marketers, the U.S. public is ready to embrace alternatives to neoliberalism.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2016
Airing the IMF's dirty laundry
The IMF's role in Europe's post-2008 crisis shows why it needs an independent management team that can make decisions free of political interference.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 2, 2016
Clouds lifting for Japan's banks as negative rates stay put
The Bank of Japan's decision not to drag interest rates further below zero provides relief for the nation's banks after shrinking lending profits crimped first-quarter earnings.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2016
Mizuho profit slides 16% on negative interest rate
Mizuho Financial Group, the nation's second-largest lender, said first-quarter profit dropped 16 percent, as Japan's negative interest rate hit income from loans and investments and failed to stoke broader borrowing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2016
Tepco's profit plummets amid power saving, defections to new competitors
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., operator of the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, said first-quarter operating profit plummeted 37 percent as sales declined amid faltering demand and new competition in Japan's power market.

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